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Prosecutor: Pastor urged ministers to have sex with teen

Unfortunately, the current climate in the church involves a high toleration for sexual misconduct. Christian couples live together before marriage, and no one confronts them. The lax treatment of sexual sin, in the name of “grace,” extends to pastors who fall. Some denominations simply transfer the sinning pastor to another district with no real discipline at all. Other churches welcome back an adulterous pastor after a short sabbatical and assurances that he won’t do it again. And, of course, some churches are ordaining openly homosexual pastors or priests and ignoring pedophilia among the clergy. All of this evinces a cavalier approach to sexual sin—a sin that has severe consequences in Scripture (Proverbs 6:27–29; 1 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 13:4). A pastor who commits adultery is behaving like a false teacher (2 Peter 2:14). The outward performance of sexual sin is just the tip of…

It’s Shocking,Child Porn,Profoundly Disturbing Trend

As society eliminates God from our culture, our schools and the public square, the consequences are hell on earth for our children The most searched for terms on the internet are related to pornography. Pornography is rampant in the world today. Perhaps more than anything else, Satan has succeeded in twisting and perverting sex. He has taken what is good and right (loving sex between a husband and wife) and replaced it with lust, pornography, adultery, rape, and homosexuality. Pornography can be the first step on a very slippery slope of ever-increasing wickedness and immorality (Romans 6:19). The addictive nature of pornography is well documented. Just as a drug user must consume greater quantities of drugs or more powerful drugs to achieve the same “high,” pornography drags a person deeper and deeper into hard-core sexual addictions and ungodly desires. There…

Don’t Be Confused: Zoe Church, Which Is Modeled After the New-Style Evangelical Church, Hillsong

When actor Chris Pratt went on The Late Showa couple weeks ago, he casually name-dropped “the Daniel Fast,” a 21-day diet based on the Bible, which he said he learned about through his pastor at Zoe Church. This comment about his church and the rest of the conversation about his faith got Ellen Page’s attention.”Oh. K. Um. But his church is infamously anti LGBTQ so maybe address that too?” Page wrote on Twitter, referring to Hillsong, another celebrity-friendly megachurch, which Pratt used to attend. Two days later, she tweeted: “If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don’t be surprised if someone simply wonders why it’s not addressed. Being anti-LGBTQ is wrong, there aren’t two sides. The damage it causes is severe.” Chris Pratt pushed back against fellow actor Ellen Page’s assertion his church is anti-LGBT. “It…

Southern Baptist leaders are speaking out in the wake of an investigative report of sexual abuse within their conservative Protestant denomination

The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News scoured police blotters and local news stories trying to gauge the scope of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention. What they found is that over the last 20 years, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct – leaving behind more than 700 victims. The gravity of the findings doesn’t seem lost on Southern Baptist leaders who are responding to the report. SBC President J.D. Greear calls the report “a warning sent from God, calling the church to repent.” Russell Moore of the denomination’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission calls it “a scandal crying out to heaven.” Making matters even worse, victims and advocates asked the SBC in the summer of 2008 – just as the Catholic priest abuse scandal was publicly metastasizing – to put together an offender database to at least keep those credibly…

DADS – How to Be a Refuge for Your Children as Society Implodes and Sin Reigns

HNewsWire- Step UP Dads! Lead Your Families. Figure out what to do, how to solve problems, and yes, fix important things. Always protect your children from harm. Why? If your little ones glimpse confusion and uncertainty in your countenance, they may become emotionally paralyzed themselves. Most likely, your children will inherit your faithless outlook and battle waves of insecurity throughout their lives. Your children might conclude that the One Strong… One Good… and One Reliable place of safety is no longer secure. God Forbid! But if Dad is confident, then the children have a refuge. If Dad is not panicking, but calm and steady, all the walls can come tumbling down, and all the waves can break, and all the snakes can hiss and the lions roar and the wind blow, and there will still be a safe place in…

Sheep Following Progressive Denominations – United Methodist Church & Presbyterian Church USA – Headed for Destruction

HNewsWire-I want to make anyone ashamed of using that term, “social justice It’s disheartening to say that so many bible teachers have been led astray, and are leading astray so many to the social gospel heresy. This is a pure adulteration of what the gospel is. Paul clearly states that if anyone, be it an angel from Heaven or any man on Earth, preaches another gospel, they are accursed. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one, we preached to you, let him be accursed.…

These so-called ‘men of God’ sexually abused children. Then they found refuge at other churches

HNewsWire-Pastor Bruce Goddard acted immediately when he learned the principal at Faith Baptist Church’s school in Wildomar, California, had been intimately involved with a 17-year-old student. He rented the 35-year-old principal a U-Haul and shipped him out of state. He did not call the police. The accused wound up at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, a church affiliated with Goddard’s alma mater, working again with teenagers. The abused girl was later told that church officials in Indiana were aware of his involvement with her when he arrived. An eight-month investigation by the Star-Telegram shows that what happened at Faith Baptist is just one example in a nationwide pattern of cover-ups and shuffling of suspected abusers among churches and universities that, like Faith Baptist, are part of the independent fundamental Baptist movement. The cover-ups are reminiscent of the scandals of…